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Still, despite the proposal’s promise, big questions remain.
But investors look ahead, so reforms that
promise
an eventual return to growth should reassure them.
More fundamentally, its
promise
of decentralized transactions with no intermediary authority amounts to an untested, Utopian pipedream.
True, an Obama victory would certainly increase his own taxes, but some things – for example, the
promise
of a multi-cultural America – are simply more important.
Moreover, as the incumbent, Kim can grant favors to win support: make loans that play to influential shareholders’ pet preferences,
promise
certain countries spots on the leadership roster, and stamp the Bank’s imprimatur on particular governments’ own domestic initiatives.
But this would be problematic, not least because it would breach a decades-long
promise
to keep inflation around 2%.
This is true even in the US, where Trump was elected on the
promise
of getting tough with major trading partners such as Mexico and China.
So, if Trump followed through on his campaign
promise
to impose a 45% import tariff on Chinese goods (most likely in violation of World Trade Organization rules), he would strike a major blow to US multinationals’ profits.
In the UK, a hundred Sharia courts adjudicate on divorce and other family cases, prompting Home Secretary Theresa May to
promise
a review of Sharia courts “to determine whether they are consistent with British values.”
Populists are demagogues who
promise
the unaffordable; they are willing to run deficits and incur debts that our grandchildren will have to repay.
But this argument ignores the typically large gap between what economists devise and what politicians promise, and what public-spending programs actually deliver.
And, just as importantly, the US was making the same
promise.
There is simply a
promise
“to launch a process to develop a protocol, another legal instrument, or an agreed outcome with legal force.”
Rich countries fell 12% short of their
promise
to cut emissions to 1990 levels by 2000.
The $40 billion Silk Road Fund and the $50 billion Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, launched last year,
promise
to finance much of the construction, with the AIIB being viewed by many as a challenge to the World Bank.
Prabhu's most impressive
promise
– to raise $140 billion from market lenders – is also his most problematic, as he has failed to clarify how exactly the railways would repay the loans.
Financial analysts are inclined to explain it in terms of America’s extraordinarily well-developed financial markets, which
promise
unparalleled liquidity.
With the
promise
of deep debt relief for Greece and a rapprochement between Greece and Germany, economic confidence will return.
Few moments in history hold the
promise
of the EU summit of December 2004.
President Moon Jae-in, a son of refugees from North Korea, was elected on the
promise
of a two-track approach to the North: sanctions and diplomacy.
Rudd campaigned on a
promise
to reverse that stance, but the failure of the climate-change talks in Copenhagen last December, when President Barack Obama refused to make the kind of commitment on behalf of the United States that was required, left Rudd’s government in an awkward position.
The digital economy holds the
promise
of a new way forward, but it is still in its infancy, and young people face obstacles in putting technology to productive use.
His campaign
promise
to “make America great again” was, after all, always code for opposition to an increasingly multiethnic America.
Unfortunately, we failed to deliver on that
promise.
Ukraine needs an immediate cash injection of, say, $20 billion, with a
promise
of more when needed, in order to stave off a financial collapse.
The “Putin consensus” was built on the
promise
of rising prosperity – a
promise
that is quickly evaporating under the heat of sanctions.
Even before intervening in Ukraine, Putin was failing to deliver on his grand promise, made in 2003, to double the size of Russia’s economy within a decade.
Regardless of whether Gates lives up to his promise, are people like him the exception that proves the rule?
Monuments and memorials can also serve an important purpose in providing an enduring reminder not only of the victims, but also of the state’s
promise
never to allow such atrocities to happen again.
She largely lived up to the
promise.
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